What Makes A Programming Language Good

[nedbrek]

"Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote in message 
news:op.vpjlwrletuzx1w at cybershadow.mshome.net...
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:09:11 +0200, Austin Hastings <ah08010-d at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> On 1/19/2011 12:50 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>
> Actually, you're probably right here. To my knowledge, there are only two 
> build tools that take advantage of the -deps compiler option - rdmd and 
> xfbuild. Older ones were forced to parse the source files - rebuild even 
> used DMD's frontend for that. There's also a relatively new tool (dbuild 
> oslt?) which generates makefiles.

Can someone tell me the corner case that requires a build tool to parse the 
whole source file?  My make helper is awk, it just looks for the "import" 
and strips out the needed info...

Thanks,
Ned